assorted links --
350.org -- climate crisis solutions
arizona interfaith power and light
blessed tomorrow: caring for creation today
• LiMPETS
caring for the earth with gratitude
caring for creation (oboedire) cott)
clothing - upcycle, donation, recycling
(suggested by STEM Club member, Sarah)
contemplative mind - nature meditation
"dreaming creation" contemplative photo project
eco-divina: praying with nature
eco-mystic & theologian, fr. tom berry
explore faith.org: honoring creation
(also: blessing for animals liturgy)
grounded spirituality, in community
living lent: lifestyle challenge for eco-transformation
man planting a forest (eco-restoration)
prayer from pope francis' environmental encyclical
(suggested by STEM Club member, Sarah)
religious partnership for environment
share your garden harvest w/ those in need
sororelle: three sisters (vimeo)
tree-planting liturgy example 01
tree-planting liturgy example 02
whidbey institute for earth, spirit ...
abbey of the arts --
advent practices: breathing deeply
advent practices: tending to creation
advent practices: following the fire
advent practices: water's wisdom
advent practices: our earthiness
american baptist (abc-usa) --
being (NPR)--
beauty in the garden of vigen guroian
climate change -- a disciples' response
elephant mourning -- animal grief
evangelical environmental evolution
gardening in paradise by vigen guroian
glory of the perseids (in one minute)
joanna macy and the great turning
land, life, and the poetry of creatures
one man's treasure, another's trash
planting the future w/ w. maathai
restoring life's balance thru soil & friends
wild love for the world (joanna macy)
Creation Spirituality
carbon fast for Lent --
carbon fast congregational resource
church of the brethren --
disciples of christ --
arizona interfaith power & light
environmental action study - leader guide
resolutions regarding environment
climate change -- pastoral meditation
episcopal church (usa) --
evangelical lutheran church (elca) --
greek orthodox --
mennonites --
methodist (umc) --
presybterians (pcusa) --
environmental justice ministry
quakers (Friends) --
united church of christ (ucc) --
... invited to take up has often been noted as that of caring for creation (Genesis 1: 26-31). Of course, misinterpreted “dominion” language has sometimes gotten in the way and led such practice off onto dangerous and distracted pathways overgrown with destruction, violence, and injustice toward G_d’s more-than-human world.
In the face of concerns regarding global climate change, life-altering pollution, world-wide food supply concerns, lack of clean water and sanitation for too-many of our global neighbors, whole-species genocide due to wars and other unsustainable practices, and more -- caring for G_d’s creation, as a spiritual practice, should be a foundational consideration for the Christian faith in each of our lives.
But let us not take up such practice from a place of fear and foreboding; let us do so, instead, as a whole-hearted commitment from a deep place of hope for what can be, and a deep-seated conviction for who and how we are called to be, as those assigned by G_d to be mid-wives and shepherds for everything G_d has brought forth and called “good.”
The first spiritual practice humans were ...